 Alright y'all I want to gather around if you can. I know it's a little wet, but I want to thank everybody for being here number one This is a really important event I just gotta tell you my name is Alamon Jenkins I'm from One People Project originally based out here in Philadelphia, but I'm now up in Jersey Really good really happy to see you all here today, but you're not here to talk to me The folks here who want to try to make sure the Julian is out of jail was soon possible And I'm glad and I'm glad that we're here in Philadelphia I'm glad that I'm here in Philadelphia because I'm gonna be reminded when I come here Then we also got to make sure that that brother Mamea is out as well It isn't over y'all everybody keeps thinking when you go when I go around everybody's thinking it's over it's not it's not so So I just want to put that out the last time I was here We was teach we was doing a teaching about the proud boys and trying to let people know what they were about How dangerous they were now everybody knows we most certainly knew that day because they showed up and tried to intimidate us But after 20 minutes they realized that wasn't going to work. So they left So now I want to introduce y'all to some other people that will not be intimidated I'm just gonna hang over the Mike Gianni to Continue the song Real political prisoners free of all Real political prisoners Julian Sange is a political prisoner And we need to be engaging this case with that clarity and that understanding My name I'll introduce myself. My name is Yanne Indigo and I am here Representing the black alliance for peace and the black alliance for peace demands that Julian Assange be free Along with all political prisoners the reality that you know a lot of times we look at these situations like This situation and we we think of it as like a clear Understood Issue of the left But when you look at the way that the left has handled and stood by Assange in this situation It does not seem to actually be clear Assange like Chelsea Manning where they were abandoned They have been abandoned by the left and it demonstrates this reality and this truth demonstrates the way that the western left is not really all that left at all and You know when you look at like the way that the left has responds or treats acts like there's a big difference For instance, then the Obama administration and the Democrats or the Trump administration Assange was pursued by both of those administrations and these administrations collaborate as it relates to any of the issues that affect working class people and at the end of the Day what Julian Assange did was tell the people what they had every right to know And instead of prosecuting the people who were who weren't behaving in an inappropriately who were committing acts of acts against humanity Who are committing war crimes instead of actually prosecuting those individuals? They want to prosecute the person who had or the people who had the gore who had the heart Who had the courage to step out and tell the truth and say no it is not okay I see what is happening. I Understand what is happening, and I'm going to tell the world what's happening because the people deserve to know but the people also Have a responsibility The people have a responsibility to stand up and it is not sufficient to go to a large Or go to a protest for a day for one issue and then act like that issue now has Received your your contribution and then move on to the next issue and then move on to the next issue They are all connected. We recognize that these things are connected It's great that we're here in the city of Philadelphia talking about this because the city of Philadelphia is a great example of something that speaks to and articulates this idea of justice and Righteousness while it is also a city that has histories like bombing Individend independent people for being revolutionary to civilians and have and again no consequences the contradictions of the city of Philadelphia are a perfect Representation and reflection of the contradictions of the US the contradictions of the US EU NATO Collaboration and the contradictions of the of the Western left We need to be looking at our comrades in the global south When we really want to understand what it really truly means to be a Revolutionary that is the reason why I wore this pen of shade Because the revolutionaries of the global south are true Revolutionaries and we need to look at those examples today when you see what's happening in Colombia when you see What the people are doing in Haiti when you are seeing what the people are doing in Uganda? When you look at what the people are doing in these other locations you recognize and understand what it is that we are supposed to be Doing here. We should not just be sitting and talking. We should be burning shit down situation completely around we turn the system completely upside down or The world is going to end because the planet is not Accepting this kind of behavior any longer So I just wanted to say a few words of introduction to get us started But the most important thing for us to understand or I'm not gonna say I don't know what the most important thing for us to understand But an important thing for us to understand is that we have a lot of fights There were thousands of people in the street in support of Palestine. It's an important fight There weren't that many people in the streets in support of the ensar's fight, but it's an important fight Nobody's talking about Haiti. It's an important fight There are not enough people talking about our political prisoners. All of these fights are completely intertwined All of our struggles are being imposed on us by the same entities the same entities that are Keeping dictators in place in Uganda and keeping dictators in place in Haiti is heroic heroic Decisions and we will not abide it. We are political prisoners free them all We just gotta be safe now On the move and long live revolution I'm here representing the move organization and all the organization that this government dropped a bomb For telling the truth about what's going on here. I'm also here representing moon. Yeah, and boom Jamal From death row has continued to put out the information About our brother and why we should be supporting him. I'm not gonna take long my sister. I may say it a lot Um, I just want to let people know that we're here and people have got to break the silence We're constantly looking for someone to stand up and do for us And when they do they want to be known as if they don't kill them They wound up being in prison for the rest of their life Julian. He's outside the country They want to bring him back here to torture him. We say hell. No stand up and support and put out the truth Mark Lamar Hill he was supposed to be here to do a Interview with the two of them. He had a family emergency and he could not make it. So We're turning the mic over to the people who know what is going on on the move and thank you for your strength Way out of my comfort zone to speak to you today Defense committee and to Julian Assange and to other people are in the situation who is in Smith I know first and foremost as an educator at youth build where we work together where he is every day Literally lifting up the young people of Philadelphia and supporting them with all of his heart in his mind He is also into challenging power structures here in this city and nationwide Who are that are oppressing the people for black working-class people of the city? What happens? this connected to The protest in May of 2020 he was arrested and the government decided to try him Federally, which is a choice that they made which comes as a mandatory seven-year sentence if he is convicted This is clearly a politically motivated charge that is designed to suppress the voice of a powerful person advocating for change in our city and beyond So we the defense committee and many many many organizers across Philadelphia are Committed to standing with it and making sure that the government does not swallow him up as it has so many other for Powerful powerful voices for change in our city I have fliers that I have here that I passed around to some of you I'll make sure that you all have them we look for your support and again We thank you for allowing us to make this connection to something that's obviously much broader That's happening to many people who have been dissenting across this country this year and in the past We must stand up and refute that and I welcome the opportunity to speak to you all and to make sure we are standing behind One of the citizens of our city. Thank you so much Because my name is John Shifton. I'm Julianna Sanders father. This is Julianna Sanders brother Thank you for your welcome. I've adopted into my vocabulary. Now this expression you all Really nice. Yeah, thanks you all Behind me here is one of the most profound civilizational artifacts in the world The first amendment. This is a treasure of the United States. That's been slowly eroded by Washington and Washington no longer wants this this golden artifact to dominate the Corresponds the conversation in in the United States. It's a really important matter. Now Julianna Sanders in his publications is Becoming a victim the first victim of the destruction of the First amendment so your support will assist us and assist yourselves and all the other People in the United States with treasure and utilize the first amendment to express themselves with their friends publish their thoughts and have Conversations where in they can get We'll put together a point of view and understand that the government Or not to do this or off to do something. This is so important. So thank you very much and The pipe goes on Thanks for coming down in the rain and I was a bit wet, but it's good to see all these spaces here and You know, we were sort of communicating all this back to Julian that you know people are coming out all over You know, we've been to we started off in Miami. Then we went to Boston. We did New York yesterday Philadelphia today and we'll be in DC tomorrow and You know, we're just letting Julian know that everyone's coming out and there's a lot of support here on the ground and that keeps in going in prison So Julian lost Julian one is a tradition case on the on the 3rd of January, but the US DOJ appealed You know instantly basically in a few days later. He was refused bail Six there's been six months since that day and and and he still doesn't know whether that when when there will be an appeal hearing So he's just been sitting in in in the maximum security prison on on the man. He's not he's not sentenced So, you know, he's surrounded by people who are serving life sentences 16 year sentences, but for Julian There's no finality. There's no No sentence. So there's no, you know, we can't even plan a party or anything You know when he gets out So this is a sort of technique that's being used against Julian to sort of wear him down You know, it's one of the meals most of the special repertoire on torture as He's from the UN as You know, he's called a psychological or no touch torture, which Julian's been suffering under For almost I think it's 12 years and he's 12 years now Why is this happening to Julian Julian? And so when the surveillance became the surveyor so that the people who do bad things in our name now have to think twice before they You know before before they sort of commit their corruption or their crimes because they know that there are people like Julian out there Who will expose them? Well, that's about it, but I like to say but yeah, thanks for everyone for coming out We'll be in DC tomorrow. We're continuing on for the month of June One other thing is a lot of people think you know, I think one thing we noticed in New York is a lot of people feel Powers they don't know what to do You know, especially when with Julian's case where you know feels like we're up against such a such a You know, the national security state is so powerful. So I think I was what's been successful in Australia is just He think things local. So you you You know petition your local Congress person set up a local petition You know among your local constituents and target your congressperson get your friends and family your neighbors You know all to express what they want to their congressperson through a petition and then submit that to that to your congressperson and then They represent you so so they have to do what you want and then once you've got that group formed through the through the petition You just keep working it keep getting together keep talking emailing and then just keep attacking your congressperson and getting them You know to do something to talk to Merrick Garland getting to drop the charges or You know advocate to Biden, but I think that's the best, you know, what we can do on a local level Is is things like that and and and they work they work in Australia. They work all around the world. So I didn't see why I didn't work here. All right. Thanks everyone Just one more thing, you know, we're all brothers and sisters in this back. There's no separation at all and as my companion here and my left said that it's all joined together so Pushing on this circumstance to get Julian as I'm free also to prevent the erosion of the first amendment is the beginning of Unity and solidarity for us And Gabrielle mentioned me that the secret is in local don't expect Biden to do anything Just expect your locals congressmen to take notice of the 450 or 500 signatures on a local petition So you look these are your people here and this is our concern That's sufficient. It builds and it starts well in Australia now About 80% of the of the parliament that's 227 parliamentarians about 80% of them are sympathetic About 30 of them are actively sympathetic and it's only come about through that technique Facebook page with your friends Talking things over get yourself in the information stream and a simple petition to your local Congressman and say look we've got this concern. What are you going to do old Jack? Very simple build from the ground up Not don't expect them to be rain makers, you know Biden got so much on his plate. He couldn't fix anything Thank you very much see you see Many of the details are things that have about the case. I'm just going to read over a timeline So in 2010 Ricky leaks released collateral The video collateral murder, which was leaked to them by Chelsea Manning. The video showed the killing of Iraqis including a journalist 2010 Afghan war laws and Iraq war laws were released In 2010 a son was accused of rape in Sweden He was never charged there. He returned to Sweden for questioning, but he bought extradition. He feared that he would be turned over to the US 2012 a son seeks asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London Embassy in London. Yeah in 2013 Swedish prosecutors attempted to close the case, but they were dissuaded by the British in 2016 wiki leaks releases DNC emails, which they say were leaked And forensic computer evidence confirms a leak and not a hack Assigned was granted Ecuadorian citizenship But in 2017 but in 2018 a new government Ecuador cut off his communication removed the citizenship After receiving four billion dollars in an IMF loan In 2019 Chelsea Manning was jailed for refusing to testify before a grand jury Also in 2019 UK removes a son from the embassy after Ecuador revokes the citizenship US indictment charging him under the espionage act is unsealed Sent to Belma. He was sent to Belmhurst prison where he remains today Eastern District of Virginia is a hanging court where criminals are rare In 2019 us you and rapper rapper. How you say it rapitor? Rapporteur Nils Melzner described his treatment in the embassy and in jail as meeting the definition of torture as just described In 2019 Sweden officially drops the sexual assault charges In 2021 British judge declares against sending him to the US citing his courthouse But also refuses to release him on bail So that is just a quick timeline so people can understand You know a little bit more about this case and I just was wondering if you all wanted to share Like anything about julian like like did you have a hint that he would be this um this kind of person that would take this kind of risk and Stand out in this way and be able to make this kind of impact when you were while he was growing up You know when he was the brother and your son and young we know we're younger and did you when did you did you have hits Um about this person that he ended up being this person in the world Yeah, I think you know from ever Now whenever I've known julian he was always trying to use his skills You know just just to stop stop injustice basically in the world and you know one way he used to do that was He made a you know in the early 2000s he would he worked on a on a Some encryption software called called rubber hose which was developed for journalists who um, you know Say travel over a border and get pulled over by police They would be took you know, they would be tortured and it was a multi-layered encryption program So say if they had a usb stick and and the state was torturing them They could give one password and that would open one layer and the and the second layer will remain undetectable So and so, you know the torturers would be like, oh, you know, we found it. We found everything But that the second layer would hide the information. So so the actual leakers or people who You know were giving the information to journalists would remain remain protected So from a very you know from a very early early time has always been interested in you know, how do we You know hold states to account. How do we prevent? injustice around the world and and how do we expose injustice And and you know that sort of developed from there and in 2006 he started he started wiki leaks and obviously, you know that Sort of eventually grew and grew to what it is today. So he's definitely had a this um in sense of What is right and you know and and how the how the truth will You know really just destroy destroy injustice Oh the the swedish Were allegations that weren't charged and those allegations were never developed They're just there to ruin and smear the character of julian particularly And to divert our attention from the heinous crimes that were exposed in arab war vials in the african war vials and in the guantanamo vials It's an endless list Actually julian They're always had a fascination for fighting for justice and a Dislike of lies particularly lies from the state So Asserting Instantly The freedom only comes through knowledge You've got to know stuff to know when you're free and so that's been his attitude. Also he did set up a An investigation back in the early days and received a commendation for it for tracking Pedophiles Yeah, tracking pedophiles on the internet and he received a commendation from So the suffering the deliberate The people is nauseating That's a julian and to me and gabriel and i guess to you So something to fight against with all our strength. There's just no need to go and bomb iraq And murder in the process a million people or have people like madame All right, madame all right saved on television. We're asked about 500 that and you'll imagine that grief 500,000 children Destroyed their lives the grief That the mums and dads felt 500,000 And she said oh, well, we think it's worth it. Well, these people are just moms And so we fight against them Thank you Can we get we're gonna ask we're gonna we have a few people who want to ask questions. So we're gonna do that You know Uh Inspire him Have a relationship with him or even just uh from a distance, you know expert That's no that's no Uh, you notice they don't mention it no more. He taught the cia how to uh, yeah Uh, when uh edwards ended up in hong kong With abandoned by the intercept on his own julian used The tools of it The secrecy encryption Deceit duplicity To confuse the cia Assuming When I say duplicity having a false trial Laying a false trial So that the cia followed the wrong trial and managed to get Edward to safety Um Edward reached out to julian for assistance Stranded in hong kong. So that's the communication here. He saved his life That's amazing. Thank you for sharing that. Thanks for asking that question You had a question And how it saved life And every time he investigated more he realized he was being way too naive And I wonder in part of Julian's trouble Is that And All these organizations You know the Department of Defense or State Department or the cia, you know, they're all they're all just made up of people So, you know, there's people in there like like you and I You know, there's good people. There's bad people So, you know, within all these institutions there exists the edwards so then the daniel hails These whistleblowers they're in there You know, they know they know they have a sense of You know, they have principles they and they have a sense of, you know, right and wrong and You know, when they come across You know, these these war crimes or mass spying They feel they feel a need to, you know, release these things and I think You know, what's happened now is that with this prosecution against julian that There's no longer an outlet for these whistleblowers Because this is the first time the espionage act has been used against a publisher So now say the new york times or the washington post or any other media outlet If they were seeing some national security leak They now have to consider whether they will come under an espionage act prosecution So if you're a a good person in one of these institutions, if you're a principled person who Sees injustice and and and you're looking at it and you say I need to leak this I need to put this out But then you turn around and and it can't be printed anywhere because these Um, you know, these publishers can now be prosecuted under the espionage act So that's why it's so important that you know, this this prosecution is stopped because there's all this all this stuff That's being done behind closed doors that needs to come out That needs to be talked about that we need to know what's being done. Uh, you know, in our names Thank you, I just worry about you all Be getting the rain there and it's COVID season We better call it a wrap Yes, there's even a website it's called right julian dot com Yeah, and sometimes I'm back in the early days when he was first wanted to build my they saved up the mail Um for three months. So there's over a thousand great big stack of letters, which I tell you when you're in jail Receiving support from the outside knowing that outside the jail There's people who are interested in your circumstances Is really important right to the strength to go on living So that in the case of me out, you know, writing the letter dropping the line On So I think we're going to be wrapping up Um, just to reiterate the importance of this fight, you know There is no revolution without revolutionaries And you're not going to have people who have the courage to step forward If they know that when they're captured if they if they have the impression or believe that when they're captured They're not going to be fought for if we have to we have to do our part to Build courage in our community this act that these acts that they're doing that this just would Was described with the espionage espionage act for example to silence people Has to be balanced by our courage and by our will to consistently fight So we cannot allow that just because they do this and they they go through these procedures And they capture our people that they are allowed to be kept We have to fight and we have to liberate all of our political prisoners So we must fight for juliana's side because that is what gives the next person the courage To come out and let people know when they are being Dammit when there is when there are inequities that are being exacted and how those things are being done So that we can fight against them. So that is our duty Thank you all